It’s been a treat and an honor to be a food contributor to @contrariannews.org They’ve collected together in one end-of-the-year post, our favorite recipes! Just for you! 🎁 contrarian.substack.com/p/recipes-of...

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

Gotta call the boss

What still astounds me every day is that in almost no discussion among French political commentators discussing Trump and what he says/does or what he will say/do does one say “let’s all remember, the man is a psychopath, dangerously ignorant, and no one can trust anything he says or does.”

“The most powerful man in the world is both evil AND demented. He has the most severe personality disorder that a human being can have: malignant narcissism.” - Dr. John Gartner www.instagram.com/reel/DSwKk8D...

The Donald J Trump and The John F Kennedy memorial? Wishful thinking or manifestation?

“As a connoisseur of human folly…” is a little noticed but magnificent line in Pride and Prejudice.

December 27, 2025

If you aren’t subscribed to @anntelnaes.bsky.social substack you should. One of the best political cartoonists of our time.

Was really in the mood for pizza. 🍕

It’s like we won the lottery! 🎉

Peace on earth good will to men. 🎄

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on

A HUGE thank you to everyone who followed, shared, subscribed to, supported my Substack in 2025. You gave me confidence to continue researching & writing, courage to pitch it for a book. 💜 to my paid subscribers who allowed me to keep testing recipes. Very Happy 2026 🥂 jamieschler.substack.com

This soup is extraordinary. Does garlic justice.

l’aïgo-boulido - “qué saouva la vido” A wonderful, fragrant, marvelously healing soup, this provençal garlic soup is so simple to prepare. Perfect as a detox after the holidays and ideal to warm one’s body and soul during the winter months. jamieschler.substack.com/p/aigo-bouli...

Governors from various blue states (not expecting anything from red states), can arrest these ICE fucks NOW, but don't. That part has been puzzling. If local PDs can be arrested for violating the law, why can't ICE? There's nothing stopping them except themselves from taking the action to arrest ICE

I refuse to repost the "president's" (sic) Christmas message so I'm reposting this mini horse in Christmas jammies instead.

This would be extremely unreassuring if I lived in the UK.

True story

Mary Badham & Gregory Peck run lines on the set of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) which was released 63yrs ago today.

So my dear friend @mamafoo2000.bsky.social and I lunched in a famous, iconic Parisian brasserie this week and of course had to start with their famous, iconic (French) onion soup. After a few spoonfuls, she said "yours is so much better" and I won't argue. jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...

I refuse to repost the "president's" (sic) Christmas message so I'm reposting this mini horse in Christmas jammies instead.

“The Christmas dessert par excellence” - Jean Ricard, Le Gros Souper à Marseille, 1955 Pompe or pompe à l’huile is a sweet, brioche-type bread of the Provence region in the South of France which, over time, became a holiday tradition… jamieschler.substack.com/p/la-pompe-a...

“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!” Peace and joy to all 🥂

We’re at the cattle cars stage. How long until the gas chambers if they aren’t stopped? I’m not saying this lightly (as a Jew, I weigh my words extremely carefully) but I’ve been warning this acceleration would come.

Europe (and Ukraine) should never cede anything to Trump because he only makes things worse for them when they do.

WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people. Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Moments of joy, beauty, grace are important to find & experience every day. Take time this holiday season to laugh, share, revel in wondrous things. And bake. You’ve seen my favorite bûche de Noël on my own Substack. Now I’ve shared it on @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Testing gingerbread madeleines.

I spotted Santa in Paris. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate. Peace and joy! 🎄 🎅🏼

It’s been a treat and an honor to be a food contributor to @contrariannews.org They’ve collected together in one end-of-the-year post, our favorite recipes! Just for you! 🎁 contrarian.substack.com/p/recipes-of...

We know why he's in those files because he's pretty much admitted it to all of us.

"I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage (Miss Teen USA) before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it....

I spotted Santa in Paris. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate. Peace and joy! 🎄 🎅🏼

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

I can’t believe the guy with 3 brown children said “we no longer have to apologize for being white” without blushing red.

Uneffingbelievable.

“Unfair practices” = they can’t be bullied.

Just headed home after the winter program with @lifesafeast in Chinon. Can only say.. Wow! It's been spectacular and the kind of break that soothes the soul. Spring will be beautiful.. Blooming and sunny.

There are still a few more spots available ! Come join us for food, wine, history, culture, fun, and France!

Sitting in bed with @mamafoo2000.bsky.social in an Airbnb in Paris, drinking wine, and watching Spirited because sometimes that’s the thing you need to do especially at the holidays. Happy, joyous, and safe holiday season to one and all 💫

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

So you know how every Republican president in the past 45 years left their Democratic successor a failing economy they had to waste the first 2 years of their presidency fixing? This one is leaving a trail of architectural disasters to erase or restore. Well, finally a republican creating jobs 🤷🏻‍♀️

So you know how every Republican president in the past 45 years left their Democratic successor a failing economy they had to waste the first 2 years of their presidency fixing? This one is leaving a trail of architectural disasters to erase or restore. Well, finally a republican creating jobs 🤷🏻‍♀️